The Holocaust was a period in time when Adolf Hitler was in charge of Germany. It was between 1933 and 1945. He wanted to control the world. He thought the world would be perfect without all the people who he did not think were "superior". Those people include Jews, Homosexuals, and Gypsies.
Hitler and his force the Nazis murdered about 11,000,000 people in total, out of those 6,000,000 were Jews. He took them straight out of there homes and into either concentration camps, death camps, work camps or ghettos. Life in a ghetto was very hard, they had probably 4 times as many people in there than they were supposed to, making it very cramped. The people in the ghettos were barely fed, skinny, weak, and beat up from the guards. The nazis took all of their food so they could eat it themselves. Pretty soon families were relying on their kids to stay alive. The kids would sneak through the holes in the ghettos walls to get food for their family, if they were caught they were killed on the spot. Hitler did not give milk to any adults, which according to him was 6 months or older. Every day the Jews were called to stand perfectly straight and at attention, if they were not (they couldn't because they were so weak and malnourished) they would get beat with a club. They would be sent to death camps where they would be shot, gassed, or other horrible ways to die.
Facts About The Holocaust:
Fact#1: The Holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945
Fact#2: Adolf hitler killed 11,000,000 people in total
Fact#3: Hitler filmed the holocaust!!!!!!!!
Fact#4: The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, it had a population of 445,000 all cramped in one tiny "enclosed city"
Fact#5: In the holocaust concentration camps Nazi doctors tested medical experiments on the jews against their will
Fact#6: The first ghetto was Dachau which opened on march 20 1933
Fact#7: The Nazis killed approximately two thirds of all the jews in Europe
Fact#8: Hitler thought he was doing people a favor by doing this
Fact#9: There was a Hitler and Himmler
Fact#10: Hitler thought any jew above 6 months was an adult
Here are some websites that I found very useful while researching the holocaust:
http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ This website has survival stories and is for 11-16 year olds. Their goal is for them to learn and prevent future acts of genocide.
In this picture Adolf hitler is walking up steps at a rally.
this is a Nazi barracks from the holocaust
This is a Nazi barracks from the holocaust.
This is a jewish star
Jewish Men were forced to dig their own graves
This is a railcar the Nazis used to get the jews from place to place
This is a rail car that the Nazis used to transport the Jews in the holocaust.
We watched the paperclip movie in class. I learned that do do a project like that you need a lot of dedication and patience to complete it. I also learned that even if you don't have a lot of money to fund it you can still do a world changing project. The paper clip is a symbol of the holocaust because it is millions of paperclips for the millions dead.
In class we watched Safe Haven The Warsaw Zoo. This is my letter to Gary Lester, the director of the movie.
Dear Gary Lester,
In class we watched your movie "Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo" and really liked. We learned a lot more about the holocaust and saw a movie at the same time. One of the best qualities is the real footage of the Nazis attacking the Jews. Another best quality is the sound, music and pictures went really well together and I could tell you really spent a lot of time on it. I learned that Adolf Hitler was full of it and a big jerk. I also learned that he made it impossible for the Jews to fight back, he made them skinny and weak and did. Overall 3.5 stars, it was a great documentary but doesn't beat James Bond. I think it would be viewable in school for 3rd grade and up. One of my questions was: How long exactly did take you to the movie?
-Diego Pareja, Lincoln school, Oak Park, IL
Personal feelings
I think the holocaust was unfair and I think hitler was very thick headed and if I was even a small part of it I would be very angry, I think that the world will always have more than one religion or skin color, their are no "superior" people just because of how they look or what they believe. Overall, the holocaust was one of the most wack, bogus, and jacked up thing that have happened.
"In November 1938 the area where Eugene's family lived was given back to Hungary. On 19th March 1944 German forces occupied Hungary completely. Immediately all Hungarian Jews were ordered to wear the Star of David and within ten days the Jewish population was moved into ghettos. Eugene's house was within a ghetto area, so his family took other people into their home. On May 14th Eugene was returning home from school. 200 yards from home, he saw a German military lorry outside the family home with his two sisters and father on board. He saw an SS man hit his mother across the face and push her on to the lorry. Eugene wasn't allowed into the house; he was forced onto the lorry with the rest of his family and other Jewish people from the ghetto. The lorry was driven to a nearby brickyard, where the Jewish population was being forcibly gathered together. Eugene and his family were ordered into railway cattle trucks and from there transported to Auschwitz Birkenau. Eugene was swiftly separated from his mother and sisters, then also from his father. After being completely shaved and then showered, he was given his number, 55546, and a striped uniform. Eugene remained at Auschwitz Birkenau for around ten days before being selected for slave labour. He was sent by train to the Little Camp at Buchenwald and then on to Dora Mittelbau in the Harz mountains, where the Nazis used slave labourers to manufacture V1 and V2 rockets underground. Eugene's job here was to load small trucks with rocks dug out from the tunnels for 12 to 14 hours at a time, without rest and on starvation rations. He became increasingly weak and after five months caught pneumonia. A German doctor saved his life. In mid March 1945 Eugene was sent to Bergen Belsen, which he describes as "a hellhole. People were lying all over the place". Typhus was rife and sanitation non-existent. On 15th April Eugene was liberated on the arrival of the British Army. [[http://holocaustlearning.org/survivors/eugene-black#Eugene Black|Back to Top]] After the euphoria of liberation had worn off Eugene discovered that he had lost his entire family, except for one older brother who had been an officer in the Czech army. He was homeless and stateless, and still only 17 years old. For a while Eugene worked as an interpreter for the British army in Sennelager. It was there he met his future wife Annie. He describes Annie as "my saviour". Marrying Annie, and the arrival of their four children, gave Eugene back his future."
From: http://holocaustlearning.org/
IBY
Iby grew up in an educated, cultured family in Bratislava, then the capital of Czechoslovakia. Her mother was Slovak, her father Hungarian, and Iby and her brother grew up speaking several languages at home.
Family group in 1932, Iby second left, mother left and father on the right.
Iby, cousin Trudi, and Tony in family car 1932
Iby went to a German grammar school until she was excluded for being Jewish. Once the Sudetenland had been annexed by Germany, and Czechoslovakia was divided, life became more difficult for the Jewish population on both sides. Jewish people weren't allowed to sit down on public transport and were the last to be served in shops. Iby deeply resented being made to wear a yellow star on her clothing and used to cover it with a scarf on her walk to school. Iby didn't come from a religious family, and discrimination on grounds of being Jewish made no sense to her at all.
Iby aged 3
Iby aged 3
Once the war began and Germany occupied Slovakia the persecution became worse. Jewish students were not allowed to study beyond the age of 16. Iby's parents' business was "Aryanised", which meant it was taken over without compensation and given to non-Jewish people.Her family was forced out of their apartment, which was allocated to a German family, and given a tiny flat on the outskirts of town in which her brother's bed was a board on top of the bath and Iby slept in the kitchen. She spent much of her time queueing in the shops for food.
Iby aged 15 when she won Miss Bratislava in 1938
In 1942 Iby's mother had a phone call from a friend, asking whether the authorities had come to "fetch Iby". The friend explained that Jewish girls were rounded up to be taken to work as prostitutes for the German soldiers on the Eastern Front. Iby's mother acted fast. She dressed Iby up as a peasant girl, and Iby and her cousin took a tram out to the village where their grandparents lived. There they hid for several days while Iby's parents made arrangements to get her away to safety. 'Safety' meant crossing the border into Hungary, crawling across no-man's land in the middle of the night. Iby went to an aunt, who was scared of repercussions so refused to help her. She then stayed hidden in the apartment of another cousin for several weeks, having to remain absolutely silent so nobody would guess she was there. Iby was just 18. [[http://holocaustlearning.org/survivors/Iby-Knill#Iby Knill|Back to top]] The cousin introduced her to a solicitor who worked in the Hungarian resistance. Iby stayed with the solicitor and his wife for several months and worked with them, helping Allied airmen to escape. Finally the group was caught, and Iby was held in prison for three months where she was subject to torture. On her release she was immediately re-arrested as an illegal immigrant and sent to a refugee camp in northern Hungary. At this point Iby discovered that her family had also escaped to Hungary and was allowed to visit them in a refugee camp in Budapest. While there she met and became engaged to a Hungarian man on the basis that, once married, she and her parents could legally stay in Hungary. Eventually allowed out on parole, she worked as a nanny for a family friend. The Germans invaded Hungary in 1944 and the situation changed markedly. One evening Iby was visiting Jewish friends when an air raid happened and she was unable to return home. At 5am the police came to round everybody up and take them to Auschwitz. It didn't matter that Iby wasn't supposed to be there, she was taken along with the rest. They were kept at a local brickyard then put on cattle wagons and began the journey to Auschwitz. Iby had never even heard of the place and had no idea what was going to happen to her. Iby spent about six weeks in Auschwitz on starvation rations, crammed into inhuman conditions with thousands of others. One day, she and some friends answered a call for volunteer nurses to go with a slave labour transport. They were taking a risk - they had no way of knowing whether the offer was genuine or if they would end up in the gas chamber - but on this occasion they were given better clothing and taken to work in the hospital of an armaments factory in the Ruhr. By this time the war was going very badly for the Germans. Iby and other women sabotaged the work they were doing to undermine the German war effort further. In the dying stages of the war, the Germans evacuated the camp. Iby and the other women were taken on a forced march towards Bergen Belsen. Anyone lagging behind was shot. Iby had developed an infection in her hip and may not have made it were it not for the friends who carried her along. They saw American tanks in the distance. The German forces melted away and Iby and her friends were finally liberated on Easter Sunday 1945. Iby realised that many of her friends and family would not have survived. Although her mother and brother returned to Bratislava, she had no desire to go home. After a stay in hospital she got a job as a translator for the Military Government in Germany and there met Bert, a British army officer. They married in December 1946 and Iby moved to England the following year. She has lived here ever since.
Iby and Bert on their wedding day 1946
Iby in 2010, copyright Paul Banks
Iby had a successful career, first in the education sector and later as a designer. She has a son, a daughter and three grandchildren. She now chairs the HSFA's Education Committee and is a tireless speaker for schools, community groups and other organisations, telling her story as a warning of the dangers of discrimination and persecution. She is an active member of her local church.
Diego's Holocaust Page
Summary:
The Holocaust was a period in time when Adolf Hitler was in charge of Germany. It was between 1933 and 1945. He wanted to control the world. He thought the world would be perfect without all the people who he did not think were "superior". Those people include Jews, Homosexuals, and Gypsies.
Hitler and his force the Nazis murdered about 11,000,000 people in total, out of those 6,000,000 were Jews. He took them straight out of there homes and into either concentration camps, death camps, work camps or ghettos. Life in a ghetto was very hard, they had probably 4 times as many people in there than they were supposed to, making it very cramped. The people in the ghettos were barely fed, skinny, weak, and beat up from the guards. The nazis took all of their food so they could eat it themselves. Pretty soon families were relying on their kids to stay alive. The kids would sneak through the holes in the ghettos walls to get food for their family, if they were caught they were killed on the spot. Hitler did not give milk to any adults, which according to him was 6 months or older. Every day the Jews were called to stand perfectly straight and at attention, if they were not (they couldn't because they were so weak and malnourished) they would get beat with a club. They would be sent to death camps where they would be shot, gassed, or other horrible ways to die.
Facts About The Holocaust:
Fact#1: The Holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945
Fact#2: Adolf hitler killed 11,000,000 people in total
Fact#3: Hitler filmed the holocaust!!!!!!!!
Fact#4: The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, it had a population of 445,000 all cramped in one tiny "enclosed city"
Fact#5: In the holocaust concentration camps Nazi doctors tested medical experiments on the jews against their will
Fact#6: The first ghetto was Dachau which opened on march 20 1933
Fact#7: The Nazis killed approximately two thirds of all the jews in Europe
Fact#8: Hitler thought he was doing people a favor by doing this
Fact#9: There was a Hitler and Himmler
Fact#10: Hitler thought any jew above 6 months was an adult
Here are some websites that I found very useful while researching the holocaust:
http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ This website has survival stories and is for 11-16 year olds. Their goal is for them to learn and prevent future acts of genocide.
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/ This website's goal is to teach kids about the holocaust
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/ This website has survivor stories and its goal is for people to learn and remember the holocaust and its survivors
http://www.nizkor.org This website has pretty much everything on the holocaust
http://globaldreamers.org This website is to teach kids about the positive sides of the holocaust
In this picture Adolf hitler is walking up steps at a rally.
This is a Nazi barracks from the holocaust.
Jewish Men were forced to dig their own graves
This is a rail car that the Nazis used to transport the Jews in the holocaust.
We watched the paperclip movie in class. I learned that do do a project like that you need a lot of dedication and patience to complete it. I also learned that even if you don't have a lot of money to fund it you can still do a world changing project. The paper clip is a symbol of the holocaust because it is millions of paperclips for the millions dead.
In class we watched Safe Haven The Warsaw Zoo. This is my letter to Gary Lester, the director of the movie.
Dear Gary Lester,
In class we watched your movie "Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo" and really liked. We learned a lot more about the holocaust and saw a movie at the same time. One of the best qualities is the real footage of the Nazis attacking the Jews. Another best quality is the sound, music and pictures went really well together and I could tell you really spent a lot of time on it. I learned that Adolf Hitler was full of it and a big jerk. I also learned that he made it impossible for the Jews to fight back, he made them skinny and weak and did. Overall 3.5 stars, it was a great documentary but doesn't beat James Bond. I think it would be viewable in school for 3rd grade and up. One of my questions was: How long exactly did take you to the movie?
-Diego Pareja, Lincoln school, Oak Park, IL
Personal feelings
I think the holocaust was unfair and I think hitler was very thick headed and if I was even a small part of it I would be very angry, I think that the world will always have more than one religion or skin color, their are no "superior" people just because of how they look or what they believe. Overall, the holocaust was one of the most wack, bogus, and jacked up thing that have happened.
Sources:
http://globaldreamers.org/
http://www.nizkor.org
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/
http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143
Survivor Stories
Eugene Black
"In November 1938 the area where Eugene's family lived was given back to Hungary. On 19th March 1944 German forces occupied Hungary completely. Immediately all Hungarian Jews were ordered to wear the Star of David and within ten days the Jewish population was moved into ghettos. Eugene's house was within a ghetto area, so his family took other people into their home.
On May 14th Eugene was returning home from school. 200 yards from home, he saw a German military lorry outside the family home with his two sisters and father on board. He saw an SS man hit his mother across the face and push her on to the lorry. Eugene wasn't allowed into the house; he was forced onto the lorry with the rest of his family and other Jewish people from the ghetto.
The lorry was driven to a nearby brickyard, where the Jewish population was being forcibly gathered together. Eugene and his family were ordered into railway cattle trucks and from there transported to Auschwitz Birkenau. Eugene was swiftly separated from his mother and sisters, then also from his father. After being completely shaved and then showered, he was given his number, 55546, and a striped uniform.
Eugene remained at Auschwitz Birkenau for around ten days before being selected for slave labour. He was sent by train to the Little Camp at Buchenwald and then on to Dora Mittelbau in the Harz mountains, where the Nazis used slave labourers to manufacture V1 and V2 rockets underground. Eugene's job here was to load small trucks with rocks dug out from the tunnels for 12 to 14 hours at a time, without rest and on starvation rations. He became increasingly weak and after five months caught pneumonia. A German doctor saved his life. In mid March 1945 Eugene was sent to Bergen Belsen, which he describes as "a hellhole. People were lying all over the place". Typhus was rife and sanitation non-existent. On 15th April Eugene was liberated on the arrival of the British Army.
[[http://holocaustlearning.org/survivors/eugene-black#Eugene Black|Back to Top]]
After the euphoria of liberation had worn off Eugene discovered that he had lost his entire family, except for one older brother who had been an officer in the Czech army. He was homeless and stateless, and still only 17 years old. For a while Eugene worked as an interpreter for the British army in Sennelager. It was there he met his future wife Annie. He describes Annie as "my saviour". Marrying Annie, and the arrival of their four children, gave Eugene back his future."
From:
http://holocaustlearning.org/
IBY
Iby grew up in an educated, cultured family in Bratislava, then the capital of Czechoslovakia. Her mother was Slovak, her father Hungarian, and Iby and her brother grew up speaking several languages at home.
Iby went to a German grammar school until she was excluded for being Jewish. Once the Sudetenland had been annexed by Germany, and Czechoslovakia was divided, life became more difficult for the Jewish population on both sides. Jewish people weren't allowed to sit down on public transport and were the last to be served in shops. Iby deeply resented being made to wear a yellow star on her clothing and used to cover it with a scarf on her walk to school. Iby didn't come from a religious family, and discrimination on grounds of being Jewish made no sense to her at all.
Once the war began and Germany occupied Slovakia the persecution became worse. Jewish students were not allowed to study beyond the age of 16. Iby's parents' business was "Aryanised", which meant it was taken over without compensation and given to non-Jewish people.Her family was forced out of their apartment, which was allocated to a German family, and given a tiny flat on the outskirts of town in which her brother's bed was a board on top of the bath and Iby slept in the kitchen. She spent much of her time queueing in the shops for food.
In 1942 Iby's mother had a phone call from a friend, asking whether the authorities had come to "fetch Iby". The friend explained that Jewish girls were rounded up to be taken to work as prostitutes for the German soldiers on the Eastern Front. Iby's mother acted fast. She dressed Iby up as a peasant girl, and Iby and her cousin took a tram out to the village where their grandparents lived. There they hid for several days while Iby's parents made arrangements to get her away to safety.
'Safety' meant crossing the border into Hungary, crawling across no-man's land in the middle of the night. Iby went to an aunt, who was scared of repercussions so refused to help her. She then stayed hidden in the apartment of another cousin for several weeks, having to remain absolutely silent so nobody would guess she was there. Iby was just 18.
[[http://holocaustlearning.org/survivors/Iby-Knill#Iby Knill|Back to top]]
The cousin introduced her to a solicitor who worked in the Hungarian resistance. Iby stayed with the solicitor and his wife for several months and worked with them, helping Allied airmen to escape. Finally the group was caught, and Iby was held in prison for three months where she was subject to torture. On her release she was immediately re-arrested as an illegal immigrant and sent to a refugee camp in northern Hungary. At this point Iby discovered that her family had also escaped to Hungary and was allowed to visit them in a refugee camp in Budapest. While there she met and became engaged to a Hungarian man on the basis that, once married, she and her parents could legally stay in Hungary. Eventually allowed out on parole, she worked as a nanny for a family friend.
The Germans invaded Hungary in 1944 and the situation changed markedly. One evening Iby was visiting Jewish friends when an air raid happened and she was unable to return home. At 5am the police came to round everybody up and take them to Auschwitz. It didn't matter that Iby wasn't supposed to be there, she was taken along with the rest. They were kept at a local brickyard then put on cattle wagons and began the journey to Auschwitz. Iby had never even heard of the place and had no idea what was going to happen to her.
Iby spent about six weeks in Auschwitz on starvation rations, crammed into inhuman conditions with thousands of others. One day, she and some friends answered a call for volunteer nurses to go with a slave labour transport. They were taking a risk - they had no way of knowing whether the offer was genuine or if they would end up in the gas chamber - but on this occasion they were given better clothing and taken to work in the hospital of an armaments factory in the Ruhr. By this time the war was going very badly for the Germans. Iby and other women sabotaged the work they were doing to undermine the German war effort further.
In the dying stages of the war, the Germans evacuated the camp. Iby and the other women were taken on a forced march towards Bergen Belsen. Anyone lagging behind was shot. Iby had developed an infection in her hip and may not have made it were it not for the friends who carried her along. They saw American tanks in the distance. The German forces melted away and Iby and her friends were finally liberated on Easter Sunday 1945.
Iby realised that many of her friends and family would not have survived. Although her mother and brother returned to Bratislava, she had no desire to go home. After a stay in hospital she got a job as a translator for the Military Government in Germany and there met Bert, a British army officer. They married in December 1946 and Iby moved to England the following year. She has lived here ever since.
Iby had a successful career, first in the education sector and later as a designer. She has a son, a daughter and three grandchildren. She now chairs the HSFA's Education Committee and is a tireless speaker for schools, community groups and other organisations, telling her story as a warning of the dangers of discrimination and persecution. She is an active member of her local church.